GIMP Script-Fu Server Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory SA49314

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Reaction Information Security has discovered a vulnerability in GIMP, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system

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Having just installed the latest version of GIMP 2.x I can at least say that this version is correctly detected as patched/up-to-date. Your installation of GIMP 2.x should also be detected as up-to-date since you have version 2.8.4 installed.

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(unknown source)Having just installed the latest version of GIMP 2.x I can at least say that this version is correctly detected as patched/up-to-date. Your installation of GIMP 2.x should also be detected as up-to-date since you have version 2.8.4 installed.

It is not detected as safe. It is detected as 2.8.4.0, but it still says its unsafe, hinting I should "upgrade" to 2.8.0! Do you have installed the "official" windows 2.8.4 build by Sergej or the one from Partha? 32or 64bit Windows? I have the original Windows Build (linked on the gimp.org homepage) on 64Bit Windows 8, and it's detected as unsafe. I'm using PSI2, I guess that doesn't make any difference from 3.x versions?

Update:
Here's what PSI reports on my Gimp:
"The version detected of GIMP 2.x (64-bit) was 2.8.4.0 while the latest version including one or more security fixes is 2.8.0."

(unknown source)Problem is fixed now. After rescan GIMP is not shown as vulnerable.

Well, it's true that Gimp 2.8.4 isn't erroneously detected as unsafe anymore. But I wouldn't say the issue is fixed, because on my pc, gimp isn't detected anymore at all now?! I haven't touched Gimp since my last post, and let PSI scan my system now. Happy at first look, that score is back to 100%, but then i couldn't find Gimp in the list of patched apps anymore.